[python-win32] Installation problem: Python 2.6.6 (32-Bit) on Windows 7 (32-Bit)

Brian Curtin brian.curtin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 2 16:38:56 CEST 2010


On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 09:27, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> If it's a known bug, why don't they pull that installer down?
> >
> > Then there would be no installers for 2.6.6, effectively removing Windows
> > from the list of supported platforms. The compile step is nice, but not
> > required, and certainly not a show-stopper.
>
> I guess a more important question is, Once installation completes
> without doing the compile step,
> does the same module have a problem compiling when it is imported as
> part of a normal script execution?
>

Nope, everything else is fine. The bug in the installer had to do with bad
command line options to compileall.py which is what goes through and
executes the pyc compilation on stdlib modules. That script was failing to
run properly, but compilation itself does work.
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